
Its policy of "neutral point-of-view" was codified in its first few months.

The domains (later redirecting to ) and were registered on January 12, 2001, and January 13, 2001, respectively, and Wikipedia was launched on Janu as a single English-language edition at and announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. On January 10, 2001, Sanger proposed on the Nupedia mailing list to create a wiki as a "feeder" project for Nupedia. Wales is credited with defining the goal of making a publicly editable encyclopedia, while Sanger is credited with the strategy of using a wiki to reach that goal.
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Nupedia was initially licensed under its own Nupedia Open Content License, but even before Wikipedia was founded, Nupedia switched to the GNU Free Documentation License at the urging of Richard Stallman. Its main figures were Bomis CEO Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief for Nupedia and later Wikipedia. It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company. Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. Other collaborative online encyclopedias were attempted before Wikipedia, but none were as successful. Wikipedia originally developed from another encyclopedia project called Nupedia. 16.5.2 Articles re Wikipedia usage patterns.11.1 Trusted source to combat fake news.9.5 Internal research and operational development.9.1 Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia movement affiliates.8.3.1 Coverage of topics and selection bias.


It is consistently one of the 15 most popular websites ranked by Alexa as of 2022, Wikipedia was ranked the 10th most popular site. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. Individual contributors, also called editors, are known as Wikipedians. Wikipedia ( / ˌ w ɪ k ɪ ˈ p iː d i ə/ ( listen) wik-ih- PEE-dee-ə or / ˌ w ɪ k i-/ ( listen) wik-ee-) is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through open collaboration and a wiki-based editing system. Most text is also dual-licensed under GFDL media licensing varies
